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ornell will celebrate its 139th Commencement Weekend, May 26-27, with about 6,000 graduates getting their diplomas. Cornell President David J. Skorton will give his first Commencement address, and the Convocation speaker will be CNN television journalist Soledad OBrien.
OBrien will give the Senior Convocation Address, May 26, at noon in Schoellkopf Stadium; Skorton will preside over the Commencement ceremony May 27, at 11 a.m., also in the stadium. Both events are open to graduates, their families and the public.
OBrien is a former anchor and now a special correspondent for CNNs Special Investigations Unit, reporting for documentaries and series on important stories for all major CNN programs.
More : news.cornell.edu
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St. John's University conferred 2,146 undergraduate degrees at three graduation ceremonies held over the weekend.
The Rev. Donald J. Harrington, president of the university, gave the keynote address at all ceremonies for the 122d commencement exercises.
Addressing the students at the campus in Jamaica, Queens, yesterday, Father Harrington told the students that "the quality of life in society rests upon the quality of education in our grammar and high schools and in our colleges and universities."
Referring to the rioting in Los Angeles, he said, "Regardless of how we interpret the events of the past month, regardless of where we seek to place
STUDENT numbers at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) continues to grow and has touched 148. The college was established in 2001 in Education City by Qatar Foundation and US-based Cornell University.
In all, 27 countries are represented in the student body, which includes 26 Qataris, an official told Gulf Times yesterday.
WCMC-Q offers a six-year integrated programme of study, comprising a two-year pre-medical course, followed by the four-year medical programme, leading to the Cornell University MD degree.
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UNCG grads receive their diplomas
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro handed out about 1,000 diplomas Thursday at its December commencement. The ceremony was held at the Greensboro Coliseum.
The head of the schools MBA program delivered the commencement address.
Family and friends packed the coliseum. Many of them said a December ceremony is bonus to the holidays.
Im overwhelmed, said Evette Taylor. My niece, Latisha Tranell Wilkins, is graduating and Im here supporting her. I have my sister, my niece and my nephew here with me. Its overwhelming.
About 500 students who graduated in August were also able to attend the commencement ceremony.
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Brenau University graduates were not the only ones to receive diplomas at Saturdays commencement ceremony.
U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal, the commencement speaker, was surprised to be handed a diploma during the afternoon graduation. In addition to the 629 graduate and undergraduate degrees, the university conferred on Deal an honorary doctor of laws degree. A closely guarded secret, it seemed to take the Gainesville Republican by surprise.
This ranks right up there with the best of them, he said afterward. This is my hometown.
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Margaret Dye had only set foot on campus at the University of Missouri-Columbia once before this weekend, but yesterday she and 153 others received degrees from the School of Health Professions at a ceremony in Jesse Auditorium.
Parker Eshelman photo University of Missouri Curator Doug Russell and U.S. Rep. Kenny Hulshof, R-Mo., applaud as School of Health Professions faculty are honored during the schools commencement yesterday in MUs Jesse Auditorium.
For three years, Dye worked toward a bachelors degree in respiratory therapy by taking classes online while at home in St. Louis, where she already works as a respiratory therapist.
UB Management Students Recognized at Commencement
Eleven graduates of the University at Buffalo School of Management received awards during the schools commencement ceremony on May 13.
The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, the largest and most comprehensive campus in the State University of New York system. The UB School of Management is ranked as one of the worlds top business schools by The Wall Street Journal. It also has been cited by Forbes for best return on investment. For more information about the UB School of Management, The graduates and the awards they received are:
• Nicklaus C.
NEW DELHI OCT. 5. Using technology once again as the bridging force, the Hughes Direcway Global Education Platform has launched three new courses as part of its new tie-up with Cornell University.
The prestigious university will be offering three of its popular courses in general management, human resource management and hospitality management through the virtual classrooms of Hughes that currently offer management programmes on the same medium through their tie- up with the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode and Xaviers Labour Research Institute (XLRI). To be delivered across ten cities of the country, the programme is now open for working
ITHACA — Katie Adams was about 20 and traveling with her parents in Kenya when, despite being careful, she had a severe food allergy reaction, with painful stomach and uterine cramps and difficulty breathing.
Shes allergic to peanuts. In retrospect, she figured she ate too many chapatis, crackers that were probably made of lentil flour. Lentils, like peanuts, are legumes.
To help people like Adams, now 39, researchers at Cornell University in tandem with the University of California, Davis, are seeking 70 people age 18 and over with severe food allergies to peanuts, tree nuts and shellfish to participate in a study
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